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Inspired from the popular Pivot stickfigure animator, Stick Nodes allows users to create their own stickfigure-based movies and even export them as animated GIFs and MP4 videos! It is one of the most popular animation apps among young animators!\n\n■ Features ■\n◆ Import and animate images as well!\n◆ Automatic customizeable frame-tweening, make your animations smoother!\n◆ A simple camera to pan/zoom/rotate around the scene, similar to the \"v-cam\" in Flash.\n◆ Movieclips allow you to create and reuse/loop animation objects within your projects.\n◆ A variety of shapes, color/scale on a per-segment basis, gradients - create any \"stickfigure\" you can imagine!\n◆ Textfields allow for easy text and speech in your animations.\n◆ Add all kinds of sounds effects to make your animations epic.\n◆ Apply different filters to your stickfigures - transparency, blur, glow, and more.\n◆ Join stickfigures together to easily simulate holding/wearing objects.\n◆ A large community full of all kinds of interesting people and other animators.\n◆ Over 30,000+ stickfigures (and counting) to download from the website.\n◆ Export to GIF (or MP4 for Pro) to share your animation online.\n◆ Compatibility with pre-3.0 Pivot stickfigure files.\n◆ Save/open/share your projects, stickfigures, and movieclips.\n◆ And all the other typical animation stuff - undo/redo, onion-skin, background images, and more!\n* Please note, sounds, filters, and MP4-export are Pro-only features\n\n■ Lanuages ■\n◆ English\n◆ Español\n◆ Français\n◆ Japanese\n◆ Filipino\n◆ Português\n◆ Russian\n◆ Türkçe\n\nStick Nodes has a thriving community where animators have a good time, help each other out, show off their work, and even create stickfigures for others to use! There are thousands of stickfigures (and more added daily!) over at the main website https://sticknodes.com/stickfigures/\n\nAs of one of the latest updates, Stick Nodes is also a Minecraft™ animator as it allows you to easily import Minecraft™ skins and animate them instantly!\n\nSearch for \"stick nodes\" on YouTube to see just a few of the thousands of animations users have made with this stickfigure animation app! If you're looking for an animation creator or an animation maker app, this is it!\n\n■ Stay Updated ■\nNew updates have been never-ending for Stick Nodes since it's original 2014 release. Keep up-to-date with the latest news and updates about your favorite stick figure animation app and join in with the community!\n\n◆ Website: https://sticknodes.com\n◆ Facebook: http://facebook.com/sticknodes\n◆ Reddit: http://reddit.com/r/sticknodes\n◆ Twitter: http://twitter.com/FTLRalph\n◆ Youtube: http://youtube.com/FTLRalph\n\nStick Nodes is *the best* simple animation app available on the iOS market! It's a great tool for learning animation, even in a school setting for students or newbies. At the same time, Stick Nodes is robust enough and powerful enough for even the most skilled animator to really showcase their skills!\n\nThank you for trying out Stick Nodes! Leave any questions/comments below or on the main Stick Nodes website! 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